Custom Drop Down Menu in a Custom Word Content Control

Question

I'm able to create a DropDown ContentControl in word such that a user can select an item from the drop down and that item becomes the text displayed in the ContentControl. However I've noticed that when you create a citation that drop down list contains command items that can launch dialogs. Is there any way to replicate this behaviour but with custom content controls that launch custom dialogs.

Answer 1

Apparently this is impossible as mentioned in the link below because:

This isn't a "standard" content control. This is something Word puts around a Citation field (and around Date fields and some other kinds). But the functionality is Word-internal and proprietary. It's not something that's exposed in the API. IOW, you can't do that, I'm afraid...

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/40542235-1a32-45e6-9aef-55709021ce53/how-do-i-create-a-contentcontrol-with-a-menu-like-when-inserting-a-placeholder?forum=worddev